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In any daytime there are certain periods, which have special meaning.

Yama Ghantaka

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Rishi Vasishtha: "Yama Ghantaka should always be avoided in any Muhurta for auspicious (Shubha) activity". It is considered that any activity (especially travelling) started during the period of Yama Ghantaka pushes the one towards to death.

Abhijeet Muhurta

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Abhijit Muhurta is one of the most auspicious and powerful criteria for initiating all types of works.

Brahma Muhurta

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Brahma Muhurta is optimal for waking up as well as any activity connected to spiritual practices (such as Hatha Yoga, Dhyana (meditation), etc), creating, planning, projections etc.

Gulikā Kalām

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According to Jyotish knowledge Gulika Kalam is a very negative (Ashubha) period of time every day that should be shunned for all auspicious and beneficial activities.

Rahu Kalām

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According to Jyotish knowledge Rahu Kaalam is a very negative (Ashubha) period of time every day that should be shunned for all auspicious and beneficial activities.

Year's 2015 last ChandraGrahana (Lunar Eclipse) will happen on the 28th of September in MeenaRashi, Uttara BhadrapadaNakshatrafrom 0:14 a.m. till 5:23 a.m. (UTC, Greenwich Time). It will be thefull eclipse that will reach its peak at 02:48 a.m. (UTC, Greenwich Time). To prepare for this significant astrological event, VedicTime is publishing last 2 articles from "Lunar Eclipse" essay.

Esoteric Essence
of upcoming Chandra Grahana and Lunar Eclipses in general

The upcoming ChandraGrahana will be a moment in time-space
continuum, when people minds will be completely dominated by KetuGraha. Ketu is the Graha of transformation whose sole purpose is to bring a person to God
and Divinity. Ketu does it by removing all priorities from person's life other than God.

In time of ChandraGrahana even perfectly well-planned
actions (as Chandra is Karaka of planning) will not go according to the
schedule and will not bring expected results. Even more - results can be quite opposite to expectations! This way Ketu shows to a person that he/she is not a real
master of his life, that results of his actions do not entirely depend on his
ability to plan and execute...

And that all results actually depend on the state of Divinity in a person. Ketu makes a person free of all inner
"rubbish" to understand what to do to reach God and Moksha. Hence Ketu influence might seem negative, but it has deep
positive results for person's spiritual evolution. It highlights all the
illusions, wrong ideas and ideals, egoistic actions and through failure,
separating true from false, it shows person his real place and mission in life. Ketu makes person understand that true happinesslies not
in results of his actions, but in the process itself.

In the end Ketu teaches person to choose action he really likes to do and fulfill. This
brings most positive changes in life:

- a person gives his best to the things he is doing.

- he feels deeply satisfied from the action itself.

- filling his actions with Love, a person gets a Divine support and thus better results than ever expected.

To sum it all up, it can be said that any of Chaya (Shadow) Graha (Ketu in our case), and ChandraGrahana in general does everything to
remind a person that a main motivation of his action should be a feeling of
satisfaction from the process, not the final result!

Otherwise a person will face negative effects of Lunar
Eclipse:

- activation of negative Prarabdha Karma.

- wrong actions
based on wrong understanding of the reality. It is important to remember that
under the influence of ChandraGrahana, a person will automatically do the most inadequate actions. Vedic texts advice not to do or start anything important in
a day of the eclipse, but focus attention on any form of Divine. It will help
to channelize the powerful energy of the Eclipse in positive direction.

Stay aware and be cautious about what you wish for on the
day of ChandraGrahana!